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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by abdullahkhalids on Thursday July 11, 2019 @05:13PM (#20415907)
> All parties in this scenario are legally compliant.

They were complaint with the letter of the law, but the law makers decided that the companies were not complaint with the original spirit of the law. So they introduced a new law so that all parties can also be complaint with the spirit.

In software engineering terms, the written down code was not producing intended behavior. So new code has been written to deal with this bug.

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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by weberc2 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @05:51PM (#20416217)
That seems like a reasonable history of the events, but I don't think it supports the original position that these tech companies had an unfair advantage. Or if it does, only for some definition of "fairness" that is subject to the whims of (biased) French legislators.
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